Akira Mizuta Lippit
@alippit.bsky.social
Cinema and Media Studies, Comparative Literature, East Asian Languages and Cultures at University of Southern California
Cinema without Reflection (2016)
Ex-Cinema (2012)
Atomic Light (Shadow Optics) (2005)
Electric Animal (2000)
Cinema without Reflection (2016)
Ex-Cinema (2012)
Atomic Light (Shadow Optics) (2005)
Electric Animal (2000)
Even after a dozen or so viewings, Train to Busan has to be one of the great films of this generation
November 27, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Even after a dozen or so viewings, Train to Busan has to be one of the great films of this generation
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The content you need
The Acrobatic Fly (1910)
YouTube video by BFI
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September 16, 2025 at 11:57 PM
The content you need
Reposted by Akira Mizuta Lippit
The view from the International Space Station as an aurora meets the sunrise in space.
August 2, 2025 at 10:44 PM
The view from the International Space Station as an aurora meets the sunrise in space.
For over 10 hours across 2 beautiful days in 2017 I spoke with Marcel Ophuls, who told some of the most brilliant stories about his life and those that lived and died around him. I could produce an entire book consisting of nothing more than his own words from those two days.
Marcel Ophuls, the German-born filmmaker whose powerful documentary “The Sorrow and the Pity” exploded the myth of widespread French resistance to the Nazi occupation during World War II, has died.
Marcel Ophuls, Myth-Shattering War Documentarian, Is Dead at 97
www.nytimes.com
May 27, 2025 at 3:38 AM
For over 10 hours across 2 beautiful days in 2017 I spoke with Marcel Ophuls, who told some of the most brilliant stories about his life and those that lived and died around him. I could produce an entire book consisting of nothing more than his own words from those two days.
Alcatraz is a beautiful prison but Shawshank State Penitentiary far more practical: only one person—baseball legend Bull Durham—has ever successfully escaped from there.
May 6, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Alcatraz is a beautiful prison but Shawshank State Penitentiary far more practical: only one person—baseball legend Bull Durham—has ever successfully escaped from there.
My dream of pronouncing tariff like Omar Sharif one step closer to reality
May 5, 2025 at 7:24 AM
My dream of pronouncing tariff like Omar Sharif one step closer to reality
Govt announcing tariffs on movies produced in foreign lands meaning I now have to go to Narnia to see Chronicles
May 5, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Govt announcing tariffs on movies produced in foreign lands meaning I now have to go to Narnia to see Chronicles
Keep seeing TV ad claiming that AI will one day ensure that trains arrive where they are supposed to & wondering how bad are trains now?
May 5, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Keep seeing TV ad claiming that AI will one day ensure that trains arrive where they are supposed to & wondering how bad are trains now?
Among his many accomplishments, none greater than Top Secret!
April 2, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Among his many accomplishments, none greater than Top Secret!
And what kind of soulless loveless party censures Al Green?
March 6, 2025 at 5:20 PM
And what kind of soulless loveless party censures Al Green?
New research reveals Josephine the Singer a transgender mouse
March 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
New research reveals Josephine the Singer a transgender mouse
Make America Oscar Again!
March 3, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Make America Oscar Again!
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Supposed to feel relief that Oracle taking over TikTok algorithm, like no one remembers Matrix, why not just hand it to T1000?
January 26, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Supposed to feel relief that Oracle taking over TikTok algorithm, like no one remembers Matrix, why not just hand it to T1000?
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A ladybird beetle spreading its wings captured with a high-speed camera. In real-time wing deployment from the fully folded state takes less than 0.1 seconds.
Video credit: University of Tokyo / Saito et al.
Video credit: University of Tokyo / Saito et al.
January 23, 2025 at 10:18 PM
A ladybird beetle spreading its wings captured with a high-speed camera. In real-time wing deployment from the fully folded state takes less than 0.1 seconds.
Video credit: University of Tokyo / Saito et al.
Video credit: University of Tokyo / Saito et al.
Lost among President Trump’s many executive orders on first day of presidency was renaming country of Turkey now known as Gravy and Stuffing
January 21, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Lost among President Trump’s many executive orders on first day of presidency was renaming country of Turkey now known as Gravy and Stuffing
In a phantastic virtual etymology, the words “precise” and “precious” would share a common origin
January 11, 2025 at 6:46 AM
In a phantastic virtual etymology, the words “precise” and “precious” would share a common origin
What if dreams are not, as Freud says, the fulfillment of a wish but rather a form of communication with the incommunicable, a metaphysics of communication across the thresholds of excommunication: the fulfillment of a communion no longer possible?
January 9, 2025 at 5:57 PM
What if dreams are not, as Freud says, the fulfillment of a wish but rather a form of communication with the incommunicable, a metaphysics of communication across the thresholds of excommunication: the fulfillment of a communion no longer possible?
Breaking: Sources tell NYTs Lorne Michaels behind Trump plan to annex Canada
January 9, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Breaking: Sources tell NYTs Lorne Michaels behind Trump plan to annex Canada
David Lee Roth holding press conference shortly to address speculation rumors misinformation that his first act as mayor will be to rename Canal “Van Halen”
January 9, 2025 at 3:49 AM
David Lee Roth holding press conference shortly to address speculation rumors misinformation that his first act as mayor will be to rename Canal “Van Halen”
United States should be focused on annexing Pepperland
January 8, 2025 at 9:40 AM
United States should be focused on annexing Pepperland
Since US annexing Canada increasingly realistic, could we please force some of world’s greatest media scholars to teach south?
January 7, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Since US annexing Canada increasingly realistic, could we please force some of world’s greatest media scholars to teach south?